Across
Time Out s (11)
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An anagram (‘slammed’) of BRIAN ENO HIT
One's interested in fish out of water naturally (4)
Local batting like English — endlessly hopeless (10)
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IN (batting) DIG (like) E (English) NO USe (hopeless) missing last letter or ‘endless’
Look forward to raise for top job (8)
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FACE (look forward to) LIFT (raise)
Some feel Biden lies about being fit to serve (6)
Battery hen potentially (13)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A play on the fact that a CHICKEN NUGGET has batter on it and a chicken is a young or ‘potential’ hen. As there isn’t really a definition, it’s not one of our favourite clues – or one of our favourite ways of eating chicken given the likely use of battery hens in the nuggets!
Withdrawn votes exposed American menace (6)
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COY (withdrawn) + v OTE s missing first and last letters or ‘exposed’
Toys winning hearts and minds (8)
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TINKERS (toys) around or ‘winning’ H (hearts)
Secure a soft drink then start to down a cocktail (10)
Something to reflect on like touring team (4)
Rome wasn't built in a day? On the contrary she sells (11)
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An anagram (‘built’) of ROME WASN’T around (not ‘in’ because of the ‘on the contrary’) A D (day)
Down
Fund scrapping first new union joiner (6)
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FI n ANCE (fund) – missing or ‘scrapping’ the first n (new)
Risk to cuddle flash European one encountered in bed (10)
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PERIL (risk) around or ‘cuddling’ WINK (flash) followed by E (European)
Woman fed up for the most part (4)
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A reversal (‘up’) of DINE d (fed) missing the last letter or ‘for the most part’
Party time to cut a long story short (4)
Moving forwards guards love taking a break (8)
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LUNGING (moving forwards) around or ‘guarding’ O (love)
'I am on call' he garbled in anguish (11)
has news Express about works being held up (11)
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BULLETIN (news) around or ‘about’ a reversal (‘held up’) of ART (works)
Theory of X and Y taken across the Pyrenees? (5)
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TEN (X) ET (‘and’ in France) – in Spain (‘across the Pyrenees’) ‘and’ would be y
One clarifying crude oil at supply (10)
T False God a (8)
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An anagram (‘fluttered’) of TAYLOR and I D (middle letters or ‘hearts’ of swIft duDes)
Tree huggers agreed on retirement sadly (6)
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A reversal (‘on retirement’) of OK (agreed) + ALAS (sadly)
Better figures that he represents in hues? (4)
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A play on the fact that ‘h’ and ‘e’ are the ODD letters in ‘hues’
Setter leaves surface behind (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
AR i SE (surface) with I (the setter) missing or ‘leaving’
Type letters or click words in the clue